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September retail sales, nice beat there, the srt up 102 from march lows, thats a new high, Dick Sporting goods, best buy, dollar general, costcos and lowes, bed, bath and beyond on its best pace ever is it time to buy retail there are still select names you can buy at retail and some names that have absolutely exploded the up side you just went through a list some of these are at alltime highs. The consumer is strong, the consumer return, the consumer has gotten out there the september numbers w...

Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued ...

Joe, its these mnuchin headlines getting something done in terms of stimulus by the election, he says, is tough. That caused a bit more of a selloff in stocks and it underscores why the nasdaq continues to have a bit under it yes, it does clearly and youre also seeing a little bit of a fallback in yield, scott. The tenyear is pushing back towards 70 basis points, somewhat troubling, i would think the market needs a little bit of some of the Forward Momentum that its been carrying in the last wee...

The last few moments on this headline from larry kudlow, the president s top economic adviser saying that the president now wants to do a deal on stimulus lets go to washington and get filled in a little more. Scott, the president tweeted on the state of the discussions over another Coronavirus Relief package. He said that the negotiations are moving along he encourages the negotiators to go big this as you mentioned white house economic adviser larry kudlow saying that there has been a plan tha...

Good morning. Welcome to squawk box. Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off today well go straight to show you how the markets are reacting on the back of that news. S p looking to fall 60 points. The biggest premarket decliners on the you dow looking at boeing, intel and apple off in some cases more than 2 or 3 eamon javers has been covering this story all night and joins us now with the latest good morning. Some very tough news for the president , the first lady and th...

Dow plunging 525 points. S p plummeting 2. 37 nasdaq nosediving 3. 02 . I got to tell you, i think this decline is healthy this market needed a beatdown if only a learning experience for people who thought it was too easy when the market is roaring, a lot of investors seem to forget the most fundamental rule, buy low, sell high they want to buy high and sell higher the problem with that strategy is when stocks go down, they go down hard. You tend to lose money faster than you make it rather than...

And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yeste...

Deadlocked on stimulus we know the economy needs more stimulus, certainly pockets of it do. Does the stock market, though . What is if it doesnt happen im not sure if the stock market is pricing it in, happening right now. I mean, theres no scoreboard that i can tell you definitively its being priced in, but i dont think its in there. So if you do get something, i think it will be good for sentiment and it will probably lead to new highs, but if you dont, independent nm not sure as wbig of a dis...

Were following all of that today. Well get to the markets in a moment we do begin with our top story the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus. Our shep smith joining us with the latest its news on the east coast here is the news the president and first lady are positive for covid19. The first lady reports she has mild symptoms but feels good the white house says the president has mild symptoms. President trump is in good spirit ossen ca spirtss on a call this morning. Pr...

Now. Is the work from home trend here to stay or just a temporary blip its random but interesting. Well bring you the results coming up on this monday, september 28th, this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Thank you for joining us on this monday. Lets get right now to your monday money and stock futures are higher dow futures up about 229 nasdaq futures on a percentage basis are up slightly more but do keep in mind we could see a lot of people not working today and volatility does tend ...